Just rented and watched this. This disaster movie was a disaster, alright. It presents us with almost limitless opportunities for mockery.

Rotten Tomatoes has some funny critics quotes.:

"Most of the movie is spent watching Jack Gyllenhaal shiver ominously next to Steve Urkel."

"Quite possibly the single stupidest film ever to spring from the mind of writer/director Roland Emmerich."

"[Emmerich] crams the film with enough digital wizardry to make you wish he had jettisoned the script altogether and simply paraded the visual effects with chapter titles such as Snow Over New Delhi and The Hollywood Sign Gets Totaled."

I kind of have to agree.

{extremely goofy spoiler}....

Did I just watch a movie, that had a scene where one of the heroes battled wolves on a Russian barge in the streets of downtown New York City, wherein after defeating the wolves he runs from falling temperatures, into a room where the falling temperature chases him to, and he then yells "SHUT THE DOOR!" (I guess to slam it in the face of the falling temperture) Is that what I saw?

Did I just watch a movie, that had a scene where one of the heroes battled wolves on a Russian barge in the streets of downtown New York City, wherein after defeating the wolves he runs from falling temperatures, into a room where the falling temperature chases him to, and he then yells "SHUT THE DOOR!" (I guess to slam it in the face of the falling temperture) Is that what I saw?

Even for a popcorn movie, that was one reeeeally bad script.

The pursuing temperature drop was right on par with the animalistic growling fire in Backdraft. I liked the spiderweb effect of the freezing as it chased them through the door...very dramatic :roll:

Note to Dennis Quad: with The Alamo and The Day After Tomorrow recently behind you, you might want to get some help picking your next project.

You haven't seen many action movies if you didn't like the visibile cold thing. Characters outrun huge fires (when the whole area is covered in gas), explosions and even nuclear explosions. Hell, in escape from LA, the main character surfs on a tsunami to outrun a car speeding on a cliff right next to him and then jumps onto the car from his surf board. Ever seen demolition man? the end scene is a pretty good example.

For me, Day After Tomorrow was worth watching for the crazy weather in Los Angeles(reporter getting whacked!) AND for the Mexican border joke.

In terms of crazy weather effects, it delivered the goods without bogging down in too much meaningless subplot, in comparison to let's say Godzilla, which wasted much of the potential that it had for Godzilla rampaging action.

Having raised wolves I know they would never act that way. Wolves are not aggressive towards humans and will normally run and hide from them .Why would they chase live humans being to eat when there were so many dead ones lieing around?Loved the special effects tho.Was really cool! :wink:

-The head-fake on 'cold'-The needless characters (Mother, Scottish guys, sick kid, etc.)-Wolves/Raptor scene-The whole idea of Quaid HIKING from Washington to NY in the worst weather ever in the history of earth - What was he going to do when he got there? Stop the weather?

I understand the whole idea that it was a big budget summer disaster film but don't attempt to make the story something that 'could actually happen' and then expect me to push aside every ounce of reality after that.

I've seen these two compared, but Van Helsing was The Godfather next to this.

The premise of the movie was ridiculous to start with, so silliness was to be expected. I can't imagine anyone is going to make a case that a SERIOUS movie about the climate of the world changing practically overnight is doable.

Bottomline for me, it delivered on what the trailers promised, many supposedy better movies didn't. Hellboy immediately comes to mind.

thank goodness i'm not the only to think this was by far the worst movie ever filmed.towards the end it was like looking at a bad car wreck, you didn't want to but you couldn't help yourself.i feel better now knowing everone else feels the same, shew

It was bad, but it wasn't Van Helsing bad. I didn't make it past the 30-minute mark of that one.

Actually, the completely implausible stuff I was able to mostly ignore (the living frost, helicopters dropping out of the sky, etc.). The thing that really bugged me is why they burned books at the library when they were surrounded by roughly 3.5 metric tons of oak furniture. Go figure.